GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778531
Rename to gnome-recipes
Last modified: 2017-02-13 03:19:03 UTC
While working on packaging this app for Debian and Ubuntu, I got an almost immediate request [1] to rename the app from the generic 'recipes' to 'gnome-recipes'. The app already identifies itself as GNOME Recipes in its .desktop, window title and About window. Most gnome-apps with generic names have named their projects under the gnome- namespace (gnome-boxes, gnome-documents, gnome-photos, etc.) even if they identify themselves generically on the GNOME Desktop (Boxes, Documents, Photos). I apologize for the inconvenience but at least this app isn't packaged in distros yet (it doesn't look like it's officially in Arch or Fedora yet). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/854951
Which problem would this solve?
Well, it would allow the package to be named the same in Debian/Ubuntu as it is upstream. It would match the naming convention used by all other apps introduced in GNOME 3. I feel like /usr/share/recipes/ should be a generic standard recipe directory but I don't think that's how its currently intended. Using /usr/share/gnome-recipes/ (and .local/share/gnome-recipes/ instead fixes this problem)
I don't mind renaming per se, but there will be a bit of a transition problem for existing users. > I apologize for the inconvenience but at least this app isn't packaged in > distros yet (it doesn't look like it's officially in Arch or Fedora yet). I'm going full flatpak here, so I am not sad about lack of distro packages at all. For the flatpak, none of these are problems.
The transition problem is mostly just moving the ~/.local/share/recipes directory, right? Any distro packages should be able to create transitional packages to depend on the newly named package. But like you said, that doesn't matter for Flatpak.
Thank you for your quick action!